Disqus integration

I’ve been toiling over the idea of integrating DISQUS into my site to provide a better way to allow site visitors to comment. I’m not sure how it’s going to work out, so consider this an experiment for now.

The idea behind Disqus is that commenting becomes more interactive for readers of this site and others. By using Disqus I’m attempting to make this site more a conversation as opposed to the usual: I post something, you read, you think about posting a comment and then talk yourself out of it. That’s not to say it won’t still be that way, but I digress.

Older posts won’t be affected. If comments exist on an older post, and the discussion is still open, those comments will still use the standard WordPress commenting system. New posts and those with no comments, where commenting is still open, will utilize Disqus.

If you hate the new system, let me know. It’s not going to hurt my feelings one bit. But if you dig it, I encourage you to sign-up for Disqus as well. You can friend me on Disqus by going to: disqus.com/people/cdharrison.

you hope the QoS isn’t affected by it’s growth? If you mean like twitter, i agree. I hope to see Disqus thread off-site discussion back into the originating sources. It would be cool to see conversations that happen on twitter, FF, whatever, logged somehow.

Yeah, sorry, my previous comment made little sense. My primary concern is that if Disqus goes offline or decides they want to charge for the service, that we’ll be locked out of the conversations that occurred on our sites…